On Wed, 06 May 2009 20:03:00 +0200, jdd wrote:
Jim Henderson a écrit :
True, which is why she also uses up-to-date virus protection as well.
if so, no firewall needed
Viruses aren't the only way of compromising a system.
*this* is the problem: how can one know an application is clean?
Such a firewall application could use checksums on the application as a way of monitoring if the application that was approved has been modified in some way. I think (but don't know for sure) that this is what ZoneAlarm does.
needs the original md5sum, never seen that on Windows
What? Pardon me for being brusque, but that's nonsense. etree.org IIRC offers an md5sum implementation that runs on Windows that is compatible with the Linux md5sum program. But md5sum isn't the only way to do checksums, either - there are plenty of algorithms to do this, and it can be implemented as part of an application. Besides, I thought we were talking about Linux, not Windows.
See. The Linux way of life is to go root when one needs to do something like protecting the computer. You get a chance to remember root is God :-)
Yeah, and which is the more critical part of an OS installation, the actual OS installation, or the data that a user stores under their own username? Reinstalling the OS takes, what, 45 minutes? Recovering lost data because of a rogue app can take much longer, especially on personal home systems because most users don't do backups of their data on their home machines. Yes, they should, but that's not really the point. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org